JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

keep as a sinking fund for the payment of the principal and
interest of all the bonds of said city, including those which
shall be issued in pursuance of this Act, all the money which
under Section one hundred and ninety-two of Chapter one
hundred and eighty of the Acts of eighteen hundred and
ninety, they are authorized to receive, and the said Mayor and
City Council are hereby authorized to incorporate into the
bonds issued under and by authority of this Act as a part of the
contract between the corporation of Havre de Grace and

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the purchaser of said bonds as security for the payment
of the principal and interest thereof as the same shall mature,
a pledge of the money authorized to be paid to them under
Section one hundred and ninety-two of Chapter one hundred
and eighty of the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety, and
the purchasers and holders of said bonds shall have the right
to rely and to insist upon said security pledged to them until
the said bonds are fully paid.

Security for
payment of
principal and
interest.

155. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer, as soon as the
annual levy is made and placed in his hands, to give notice
thereof, in the several newspapers published in said city,
stating the time after which no discount will be allowed on
taxes, the time from which taxes bear interest, and warning
all taxpayers of their liability to be published as delinquent
taxpayers, and to have their property sold unless the taxes
with which they are charged are paid on or before the ist
day of February then next ensuing. He shall also immedi-
ately after the receipt of the levy, as aforesaid, make out the
bill of each taxpayer, to which a similar notice shall be
annexed, and upon application shall forward the bill by mail
or otherwise to the person or his agent to whom taxes have
been assessed.

When
discount on
taxes shall
cease.

155 A. Upon the first and third Saturday of every month it
shall be the duty of the Treasurer to attend at some place
within said city between the hours of 12 M. and 3 P.M., and 7
and 9 P.M., to collect and receive taxes and other moneys due
the city.

Stated days to
collect taxes.

155B. Immediately after the ist day of January in each year
the Treasurer shall make up a list of all delinquent taxpayers
and the amounts for which they are respectively in the arrear,
and if the said taxes are not paid on or before the ist day of
February next ensuing he shall immediately thereafter cause the
same to be published, once a week, for two successive weeks,
in not more than two newspapers published in said city, and
charge a proportionate part of the cost thereof to each of said

Treasurer
shall make
up list of
delinquent
taxpayers.